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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4185310, member: 833"] Love, Rosie (2014) - was working late tonight and needed something on in the background that I didn't need to be watching too closely, so I flipped through Starz and found this. It is not the worst romcom movie I have ever seen, but it could have been a lot better. First, Lily Collins and Sam Claflin are two good actors that look the part of romcom leads. The basic premise of a long term, almost love affair where the timing was never quite right, from teenage years through 20's is not particularly original, but I was not expecting much so whatever. The movie is based on a book, and there are some pretty good monologues that were probably pulled straight from the book, but a lot of the bridge scenes and dialogue are really weak. Like bad sitcom writing weak. Also, the Collins' character seems kind of hopeless and unambitious about anything, and the Claflin character comes off as a shallow, pretentious jerk, so by the middle of the movie, I had trouble caring about the plot because the best thing for both characters would be for them not to get together. Overall, this felt like a Netflix film, kind of slapped together with a bunch of semi-recognizable pretty people to keep your eyes on the screen and distract you from the fact that the writing was lazy and the half the plot was completely unnecessary. [/QUOTE]